RUSTSEC-2019-0024: Test advisory with associated example crate

What to do

1. See which version you have: cargo tree -i rustsec-example-crate (it also shows which of your dependencies pulls it in).
2. Update within your version requirement: cargo update -p rustsec-example-crate. If the fix is a newer major or minor than your requirement allows, raise it in Cargo.toml (for example rustsec-example-crate = "1.0.0") or update the dependency that pulls it in.
3. Check again with cargo audit, or paste your Cargo.lock into our Cargo.toml checker.

Details from the advisory

This is a test advisory useful for verifying RustSec tooling and vulnerability detection pipelines are working correctly. Aside from the fact that it is filed against an example crate, it is otherwise considered by the Advisory Database itself to be a normal security advisory.

It's filed against rustsec-example-crate, an otherwise completely empty crate with no functionality or code, which has three releases:

• v0.0.0 - *unaffected* by this advisory (but *yanked* from crates.io)
• v0.0.1 - *vulnerable* according to this advisory
• v1.0.0 - *patched* by this advisory

References

• Package: crates.io/crates/rustsec-example-crate
• Advisory: rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0024.html
• Report: github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/issues/158

From the RustSec Advisory Database (CC0-1.0) via the OSV export, downloaded Oct 24, 2026. Severity score computed from the published CVSS vector.